Principal Investigators

    Prof. dr. Jan Veldink

    Institution

    UMCU

    Contact information of lead PI

    Country

    Netherlands

    Title of project or programme

    Project Beyond MinE-NL

    Source of funding information

    Stichting ALS

    Total sum awarded (Euro)

    € 1,508,159

    Start date of award

    01/01/2015

    Total duration of award in years

    3.0

    The project/programme is most relevant to:

    Motor neurone diseases

    Keywords

    Research Abstract

    As the cause of sporadic ALS has not been discovered by researchers up to now, Project MinE has been set up – the largest genetic ALS research initiative to date that should overcome the power problems of previous genetic studies.
    Project MinE researchers aim to analyse the genomes of 15,000 ALS patients and 7,500 control subjects worldwide with whole genome sequencing. Sequencing implies reading all genes of the genome. This generates more than 6 petabyte of data. This amount of data is almost unprecedented in medical research. Obviously, this amount of data needs the best and largest facilities for storing and analysing and these are now being arranged
    To enable this important and innovative process of untangling the whole genome sequencing data of 22,500 DNA samples, the Netherlands ALS Foundation has approved a grant application of the ALS Centre Netherlands for the costs of data storage and analyses for the Project MinE consortium (called ‘Beyond Project MinE NL’)

    Lay Summary

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Types: Investments > €500k
Member States: Netherlands
Diseases: Motor neurone diseases
Years: 2016
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